1. Life Cycle of a Plant
4th Grade

2. Life Cycle
All stages of a living thing from the beginning of life to death make up the life cycle

5. Life Cycle of a Non-Flowering Plant

6. Differences between Flowering and Nonflowering Plants
Seeds form in the flowers
Produce eggs called ovules and
pollen
Fertilized egg becomes a seed
Fruit grows from the seed
Non Flowering Plants
Make seeds in Cones
Seeds drop on ground and germinate
New Plant grows

7. Vocabulary Flowering: a plant that produces a flower
Living: anything that needs nourishment, reproduces and dies
Non Flowering: any plant that does not produce flowers (examples, pine trees, daisies, ferns)
Seed bearing: plants that produce seeds (all flowering plants and gymnosperms)
Reproduces: to make more living things of the same kind.
Seed: contains a tiny new plant.
Embryo: tiny new plant in the seed.
Germinates/Sprout: when a new plant starts growing from a seed (this is when the life cycle begins.)
Flower: a part of the plant where seed forms
Cone: Found in pine trees and other nonflowering plants where the the seeds are (there are male cones with pollen and female cones with eggs)

8. Let's practice
Describe how the life cycles of an orange tree and a pine tree are alike and different